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preclude departments bringing forth recommended adjustments at other times if State law or other circumstances make mid -year changes appropriate. 2. Finance Director annual report to Manager/Council The Finance Director shall review the proposed fee changes and/or additions or deletions suggested by each department and report to the Manager and Council as part of the annual budget cycle on proposed changes. At this time, the Finance Director shall propose across the board adjustments to fees for City salary increases and other inflationary impacts. 3. Periodic review of overhead cost allocations. Every five years the Finance Director shall analyze or cause to be analyzed the overhead and departmental management costs allocated to each fee. 4. Annual master fee schedule adjustment. To facilitate annual adjustment, the City shall annually adopt a new master fee schedule. The City Attorney shall propose any new fee ordinances in a manner consistent with this intent, and revise any ordinances existing requiring such adjustment so that the amount of the fees can be changed with a single new resolution each year. D. DAMAGE REIMBURSEMENT 1. Overall basis for charges. The City will charge the person who has damaged, destroyed, or taken City property for the cost to the City to process the incident and to replace that item or items with a comparable new item which conforms to current City policies for the purpose the item serves, or to repair the item to a state comparable to its state at the time of the incident. Where the item damaged, destroyed, etc. was a vehicle, the City charges will not exceed the cost to replace the vehicle with a comparable vehicle of similar capabilities and use, plus its processing costs. All costs incurred by the City shall be included in the time and materials charged to the perpetrator, including time to determine the nature and extent of the problem, time to determine the most effective way to restore the previous situation, time to handle the parties involved, court costs and time if needed, staff report preparation time, and the reasonable costs allocated to these direct expenses to cover their pro -rata share of direct supervision, management, support facilities, equipment used in the repair, the general City overhead. 2. Costs of items acquired or installed to replace damaged property_. The actual hydrant, lamp post, sign or signpost, or other item acquired or installed should be charged to the claim. This cost should be determined by the actual out-of-pocket cost if purchased for this specific repair or the replacement cost value if taken out of storage. If the replacement is an upgrade from the item which was damaged, the charge should only be for the cost of the comparable item with two exceptions. First, if the only readily available item (or in an emergency, the only immediately available item) differs from the replace item, the City will charge the full cost. (Example -- they no longer make the old type, or the old type is not available on nights and weekends and we could not wait.) Second, if a wooden signpost was damaged, but the City standard for a signpost is now to use a metal signpost (or a larger wooden signpost), the City will charge for replacement at the current standard. 220